Alissa Abdullah

As Mastercard's Deputy Chief Security Officer, Dr. Alissa Abdullah leads the Emerging Corporate Security Solutions team and is responsible for protecting Mastercard's information assets as well as driving the future of security. Prior to Mastercard, Alissa was the CISO of Xerox where she established and led a corporate-wide information risk management program. Alissa also served as the Deputy CIO of the White House where she helped modernize the Executive Office of the President's IT systems with cloud services and virtualization. Alissa holds a PhD in IT Management from Capella University, a Master's degree in Telecommunications and Computer Networks from The George Washington University, and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Savannah State University.​